Lacerta
Lizard (Lacerta agilis / green lizard) · Animal
Lacerta is derived from accidental poisoning or bites, presenting with left-sided symptoms and neurological effects including delirium alternating with heightened mental clarity. It affects the mouth (vesicles under tongue), skin, and nervous system with marked left-sided muscular rigidity.
Key symptoms
- Large vesicles under the tongue with constant accumulation of saliva
- Swelling, pain, and numbness at site of bite
- Delirium alternating with greatly increased mental acumen
- Left-sided paralysis with rigid and tender neck and jaw muscles
- Skin eruptions following ingestion or bite
- Excruciating pains in bitten limb on motion
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion (excruciating pain in bitten limb)
- Touch (symptoms aggravated)
Better (amelioration)
- Drinking vinegar and water frequently
Lacerta agilis. Green Lizard (also Large Green Spotted Lizard of U.S.). N. O. Lacertilia. Tincture of whole animal. (A separate preparation of the spotted lizard should be made.)
Clinical
Skin, eruptions on. Tongue, vesicles under.
Characteristics
The Green Lizard is usually considered to be non-poisonous; but Baldelli, who ate a lizard cut into small pieces, developed some decided symptoms of indigestion, vesication under the tongue, and skin eruptions; and a girl, bitten on the sole of the left foot by a "large green spotted lizard," died of the effects of the bite after twenty-one days of suffering. This is recorded in Allen's Appendix, and comes from an American source, so it is probably an American variety of Lacerta that is accountable for this. Swelling, pain, numbness, delirium, with an alternating state of greatly increased mental acumen, left-sided paralysis, neck and jaw of left side rigid and muscles tender. In the Schema the symptoms due to the bite of the American lizard are marked (A). The symptoms of the proving were > by drinking frequently vinegar and water. Motion = excruciating, pains in bitten limb. Touch <.
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